Brexit March 2018: Thousands to descend on Westminster to demand public say on final deal

Thousands of anti-Brexit campaigners are expected to march on Westminster, two years on from the 2016 referendum.

The pro-EU Campaigners are marching to demand that the public have a say on the final Brexit deal.

Marchers will descend on Parliament Square from midday on Saturday, where speakers will include Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, Tory former minister Anna Soubry, Labour's David Lammy and Green co-leader Caroline Lucas.

Sir Vince is expected to say Brexit is not a "done deal" or inevitable and can be stopped.

"Parliament is fiddling at the margins while the country slowly burns," he is expected to warn as he calls on the Government to vote on the deal, or no deal, with the option of staying in the EU.

A spokesman for the People’s Vote said: “There is real anger and frustration in the country about the way politicians have made such a mess of Brexit and, while it is difficult to predict exact numbers, we’re confident this will be the biggest Brexit protest yet.”

The march comes as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson urged the Prime Minister to deliver a "full British Brexit" as Cabinet colleagues warned the UK is able to walk away without a deal.

Mr Johnson said people would not tolerate a "bog roll Brexit" that was "soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long".

Writing in the Sun on Saturday, Mr Johnson said the public were keen to get on with breaking away from Brussels.

"Across the country I find people who - whatever they voted two years ago - just want us to get on and do it," he said.

"They don't want a half-hearted Brexit. They don't want some sort of hopeless compromise, some perpetual pushme-pullyou arrangement in which we stay half-in and half-out in a political no man's land - with no more ministers round the table in Brussels and yet forced to obey EU laws.

"They don't want some bog roll Brexit, soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long.

"They want this Government to fulfil the mandate of the people and deliver a full British Brexit."

Meanwhile research by the Centre for European Reform (CER) think tank indicated Brexit had already made the UK economy 2.1 per cent weaker than it would have been if voters had decided to stay in the EU.

Dr Fox told the BBC it is "essential" the EU "understands... and believes" the Prime Minister's assertion that no deal would be better than a bad deal.

He said the threat had "added credibility because if we were to leave, the economic impact on a number of European countries would be severe".

It emerged on Friday that almost half of voters want a second referendum on Brexit. A survey by Survation for ITV’s Good Morning Britain suggested the UK would vote in a fresh poll to remain in the EU by a margin of 53 per cent to 47 per cent.

The survey also found 43 per cent of voters back a soft Brexit, in which the UK would stay in both the single market and customs union, while 37 per cent favour a hard Brexit in which Britain would leave both.

Only 35 per cent of people said Brexit would be good for the UK economy, while 39 per cent said it would be bad.

Additional reporting by Press Association